Sisiwön

"Sisiwön" is the provisional name of a collaborative Conlang, started in early 2004, by a small group of members of the Conlang list.

The name itself, while phonologically compatible with the language, doesn't actually mean anything (yet).

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Vowels:

There are a total of twenty phonetic vowels:

i ii ü üü ï ïï u uu e ee ö öö ë ëë o oo ä ää a aa
ɪ i: ʏ y: ɯ ɯ: ʊ u:

However, due to vowel harmony, any given word will only contain a subset of these, either

i ii ü üü e ee ö öö ä ää

or

ï ïï u uu ë ëë o oo a aa

Thus, it could be said that the language has 10 vowel phonemes, plus a +-back suprasegmental phoneme.

Also, given the syllable structure, it makes sense to think of vowel length as provided by a single /:/ phoneme, reducing the inventory even further to just five basic vowels: ï u ë o a, plus two vowel-modifying phonemes, /:/ and [+front], the last of which occurs zero or one times in each word, affecting all the vowels in it.

Consonants:

From the group's phonology file, still in X-Sampa:

                 lab   alv   lat   alvpa pal   vel   uvu   glo

Stops plain p t k q

     aspirated   p_h   t_h                     k_h
     ejective    p_>   t_>                     k_>

Affricates ts) tK) tS) Fricatives f s K S x h Nasals m n N Liquids r l Semivowels

Labialized lab alv lat alvpa pal vel uvu glo Stops plain k_w q_w

     aspirated                                 k_w_h
     ejective                                  k_w_>

Affricates ts)_w tS)_w Fricatives s_w x_w Nasals N_w Liquids Semivowels w

Palatalized lab alv lat alvpa pal vel uvu glo Stops plain

     aspirated   
     ejective    

Affricates ts)_j Fricatives s_j Nasals n_j Liquids r_j l_j Semivowels j

There may be a restriction preventing labialized and palatalized consonants from occurring before [i(:)] and [u(:)], respectively.

Paul (?) had written:

Some of the consonants seem to be in a bit of a state of flux, particularly the labialised and palatalised series. There are definitely the following ...

     p    t           k     q
     pʼ   tʼ          kʼ
     pʰ   tʰ          kʰ
     m    n           ŋ
f         s     ʃ     x           h
          ts    tʃ    
          ɾ
          l     
          ɬ     
          tɬ    
     w          j

... plus labialised and palatalised variants of some of them.

Syllable structure:

It seems the consensus is CV(N) with N being any non-stop, non-affricate, or alternatively the aforementioned vowel-lengthening phoneme /:/. The symbol C may also stand for a word-initial ∅, allowing vowel-initial words.

Word structure:

Any number of syllables, as defined above, with no other constraints known at this time.